Best odds:

Home: Liverpool 133/100 (Betfair)

Draw: 53/21 (Pinnacle)

Away: 9/4 (Boylesports)

Ah. Liverpool. My bête noire. The gift that keeps on giving.

I'm going to do a Shaun Custis here and admit that I know little about a European team. Only difference being I am an amateur football tipster doing it for the love, playing it for laughs, and admitting I am unfamiliar with a relatively little known Russian side, and Shaun Custis is the Chief Football 'Writer' for the S*n who admitted to knowing next to nothing about Poland live on national radio. On a prearranged call that was made to seek his views on the Poland England game. He laughed after saying “come off it” when asked for some insights into their less obvious threats outside Lewandowski. Words fail me. But that's okay, they seem to fail Shaun on a regular basis and it doesn't look to have done him any harm in his career as a 'journalist'. Maybe he has a photo of Rupert Murdoch at one of Jimmy Savile's 'parties'. Who knows.

What I can report on with some familiarity however, is Liverpool's brave new striker policy. It goes something like this: Hire David Brent as your manager, loan out one of only two recognised senior first team strikers, and rely on one young (and now injured) Italian of questionable quality for back up, who is nowhere near ready for the huge responsibility of such a position at a club of this size, then sit back and watch. The result is one deeply unpleasant Uruguayan having his own personal and completely unnecessary battle with the world, the more paranoid sections of one of the most paranoid sets of fans in the world defending him at every turn, and his shots to goals ratio looking like the Lib Dems' manifesto promises made to manifesto promises kept figures  (clue for the 34.9% of you who were too busy watching X-Factor to vote last time and who are presumably more interested in JLS than this country going to hell in a handcart – it ain't great). Cue much mirth and schadenfreude from pretty much the rest of the country's football family.

Anyhow, unlike Shaun 'clueless' Custis, I am going to do some research for you lovely people, so I'm like, y'know, informed and stuff. Liverpool's home Europa League form this year reads P3 W1 D1 L1 F6 A4. Anzhi away in the same competition have managed P4 W3 D1 L0 F12 A1. Samuel Eto'o has scored seven of their twelve. In terms of Group A so far, Anzhi sit top on goal difference with a win and a draw, with Liverpool in third with a win and a defeat. Domestically, Liverpool are struggling along in twelfth after eight having secured their first home league win of the season against lowly Reading, who let Suarez have ten shots, only one of which was on target (and he still couldn't score). No, seventeen year old Raheem Sterling papered over the cracks for the loveable South American, but I can't see the same outcome here. Meanwhile, in Russia, Anzhi sit top of their domestic league two points clear of CSKA after twelve matches.

Anzhi are 9/4 with Boylesports. Nine. To. Four. Keep it simple and get some wedge on the Russians immediately if not sooner. Also, Eto'o is 13/8 to score any time. Longer odds than Suarez. You have to have a couple of quid on him just on general principles.

Liverpool vs Anzhi Betting Tips

Anzhi Makhachkala to win at 9/4 with Boylesports – new signups get a free £20 bet

Samuel Eto'o to score any time at 13/8 with Ladbrokes – new accounts get a free £50 bet

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